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Source: WCO The report on the inaugural round of the International Survey on Customs Administration (ISOCA) is now available on the WCO public website. The data collected in this Survey is based on the combined efforts of 51 Customs administrations around the world, who provided information by…
Source: WCO On 4 November 2021, the WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, spoke at a Ministerial Meeting of Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) themed “Towards sustainable, resilient COVID-19 recovery: Bridging the LLDCs’ trade gap”. The meeting was convened by the Government of Mongolia…
Source: WCO The Directors General of Customs of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) met on 27 and 28 October 2021, via videoconference. The Meeting was chaired by Mr. Carlos Benguela, Director General of Customs of Sao Tome and Principe. Representatives of the Community’s eight…
Source: WCO A new version of the Harmonized System Nomenclature will enter into force on 1 January 2022 and is available here, https://www.wcotradetools.org/index.php/en/harmonized-system/2022/en Explanatory Notes are not yet available but are expected before the end of 2021.
This morning, Jaime King, a past chair of the IFCBA and one of the IFCBA’s delegates to the WCO Private Sector Consultative Group (PSCG) was elected as the PSCG Chair. This is for a three-year term. More details will follow, but we would like to congratulate Jaime on behalf of all IFCBA members…
Paul Damkjaer, IFCBA Director from Australia and an IFCBA Managing Director, has provided us with the Winter 2021 edition (August) of the ABF Goods Compliance Update. IFCBA members are always interested in developments in other countries, and we hope you will find this of interest. If you have any…
Source: TaxScan The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) notified that the license under Customs House Agents Licensing Regulations to be invalid, if the licensee is inactive for 1 year. The Board has notified the Customs Brokers Licensing (Amendment) Regulations, 2021 which seeks to…
Source: WTO The WTO issued the 2021 edition of World Tariff Profiles, a joint publication of the WTO, International Trade Centre and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The publication provides comprehensive information on the tariffs and non-tariff measures imposed by…
Source: The Phnom Penh Post The Ministry of Economy and Finance’s General Department of Customs and Excise of Cambodia (GDCE) has waived the payment of customs broker licence fees for 2021-2022 as the Kingdom’s transport and logistics sectors reel from the sweeping effects of the ever-deepening…